"The activities use a hands-on approach that encourages youths to be actively involved in the processes of learning, discovering, and exploring." --
Science Books & Films"Kohl and Gainer provide preschool teachers and parents with dozens of activities to show children that, like beauty, math is all around us if we only look for it." --
Cleveland Daily Banner"
MathArts contains a wealth of easy-to-do, creative art experiments that encourage children's natural development of math concepts... these activities are innovative, adaptable, and very effective!" --
The Midwest Book Review"This is a great resource for parents and early childhood educators. Over two hundred art activities including sorting, measuring, graphing, sequencing, and counting, help develop math concepts." --Reviews from Parent Council
"200 activities explore math through art for ages 3-6: an unusual age range to target, and an unusual yet effective approach." --
Children's Bookwatch"This fabulous oversized guidebook contains 200 activities to help preschoolers explore math through art. As children learn sorting, matching, one-to-one correspondence, and patterning, they're developing essential math concepts. Add counting, measuring, and number values, and preschool math is learned with fun!" --
All Together Now"Teachers who have the responsibility and pleasure of introducing very young children to mathematics will find many worthwhile activities in
MathArts." --
Teaching Children Mathematics"Contains a wealth of easy-to-do, creative art experiences that encourage children's natural development of math concepts." --
The Parent Paper
Award-winning author MaryAnn F. Kohl has written 14 books. Her philosophy, "It's the process, not the product," guides her writing as she provides open-ended art activities for young children. MaryAnn's activities focus on the experience of art, not the final product a child creates. She lives in Ferndale, Washington. Cindy Gainer is the author of award-winning I'm Like You, You're Like Me and coauthor of MathArts and Good Earth Art with MaryAnn F. Kohl. She has a BFA from Seton Hill University and Pennsylvania State Teaching Certification in Art and Early Childhood Education and Gestalt Therapy Certification. Cindy lives in Jeannette, Pennsylvania.